Foreign News: For Britons Only

Virtually certain to win a future Nobel Peace Prize award would be the
statesman-conjurer who could persuade both sides of the 23-month-old
Spanish Civil War to lay down their arms and peacefully mediate their
differences. Last week Great Britain's peace-talking Prime Minister,
Neville Chamberlain, slyly let it be known through "authoritative"
sources that he was considering waving a magic wand in that direction.

Mediator Chamberlain was represented as believing it possible: 1) that
Fiihrer Adolf Hitler and II Duce Benito Mussolini would persuade
Generalissimo Francisco Franco to talk matters over with his enemies;
2) that French Premier Edouard Daladier could press Spanish...